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Health
workers use smart phones and a head torch to take a picture of the cervix. Photo:
BBC
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Researchers in northern
Tanzania have built an app that nurses and doctors can use to screen women for
cervical cancer, which they say is the first of its kind in the
world.
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The
app is called Servical Photo: BBC
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It
requires health workers to take a photographs of the cervix with a
smartphone and then send them via the app to a medical expert in a specialized
clinic.
Doctors
at the clinic review the image and immediately send a diagnosis
via the app back to the health worker, giving instructions about
treatment.
Although
mobile phone connectivity is a problem, it allows health workers
to screen and save the images and send them later.
In
Tanzania, more than 4,000 women die every year from cervical
cancer, according to the World Health Organization.
Cervical cancer is
preventable.
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